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Originally Posted by anamardoll
Also, +1 to this. The insistence on a Real Name is extremely problematic. (And I'd imagine that a quick poll of MR moderators would find that few of them have Real Names listed in their siggies. If we can trust "anonymous" moderators, then why not commenters?)
I've known people in Real Life whose Real Name participation online backfired in a bad way through no fault of their own. I would not presume to insist that everyone use their Real Life name online for these very reasons.
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As the poster who raised the issue about real names, it is clear that my sarcasm didn't make it from my mind to the post
. My point was -- and hopefully I am articulating it better this time -- that it seems to me that if we are going to tolerate anonymous posting for whatever reason, we should tolerate people who do not wish to identify electronic gadgets that they may or may not own. More harm is done to online communities by anonymous posters than by people who list none as a reading device.
As another poster noted, many of MR members do not provide details, yet we seem to be jumping all over the device one but none of the others. I see no rational reason why the device information is so much more important than any of the other tidbits of information, such as geographical location, date of birth, gender, real name, etc. More spamming is done by anonymous than by none.